I'm on the 12th day of June, with an Average Blood Glucose of 108.95 and a Standard Deviation of 47.86As I've said before, those two numbers tell the story. My AVG looks super, but the STDEV shows I've gone hypo way too much ( Read more... )

So, veterinary medicine is not just a better political-economic model for health care than what we've got for humans...

http://www.coreynahman.com/antibiotics.htmlTash has been suffering from allergies (welcome to the Sonoran Desert!) and probably exacerbated by the high-power air conditioning which causes me to dive under a blanket at random ( Read more... )

Near the end of an intense day, I'd just gotten my insulin pump attached, and clients arrived to workout earlier than expected ( Read more... )

My new, Medtronic-Minimed Paradigm 722 insulin pump arrived yesterday, late in the busiest day I've had in months ( Read more... )

The workout: 3 minute AMRAP (as many reps as possible in a limited time) of very heavy Clean & Jerks. Warmup with 5 x 135 lbs and 2 x 185 lbs, then the first was a 3 minute AMRAP of 225 lbs clean & jerks. I only completed 6 (surprise to me, I thought I'd get more than 10 and possibly 12-14 ( Read more... )

"Plandomization" - Fantastic article by Greg Everett in Performance Menu - consistent with my approach to CrossFit programming. His article is well-written, funny as hell, with many quotes begging to be excerpted ( Read more... )

BACKSTORY: I was diagnosed with diabetes in September of 1993. In 1996 I went on my first insulin pump, a Minimed 506. The pump, market conditions and the state of diabetic care at that time are all fascinating, but that's another story ( Read more... )

It's too soon to really get my hopes up, but for the past 20 hours I have achieved near perfect blood sugar control ( Read more... )

This was a note I wrote to myself, unedited.

Many people need to be pushed, and pushing them really is exactly the right thing to do. There is an occasional rare instance when it's not the right thing to do, hence this note to myself:
10. Beware of the boy who cries wolf. You'll end up pushing him hard. The trainer always tries to find balance on ( Read more... )

These made my stomach sore, as in, abdominals sore from intensive contractions.

The exercise needs a name. By components, it's a forward roll made very awkward by holding the barbell, followed by a "rollup" or "sit-up squat", followed by a thruster.

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A couple of those made me see stars.